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AdS/CFT for 3D Higher-Spin Gravity Coupled to Matter Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-03-05 v2

Abstract

New holographic prescription for the model of 3d higher-spin gravity coupled to real matter fields BμνB_{\mu\nu} and CC, which was introduced in ArXiv:1304.7941[hep-th], is formulated. By using a local symmetry, two of the components of BμνB_{\mu\nu} are eliminated, and gauge-fixing conditions are imposed such that the non-vanishing component, BϕρB_{\phi\rho}, satisfies a covariantly-constancy condition in the background of Chern-Simons gauge fields AμA_{\mu}, Aˉμ\bar{A}_{\mu}. In this model, solutions to the classical equations of motion for AμA_{\mu} and Aˉμ\bar{A}_{\mu} are non-flat due to the interactions with matter fields. The solutions for the gauge fields can, however, be split into two parts, flat gauge fields Aμ{\cal A}_{\mu}, Aˉμ\bar{{\cal A}}_{\mu}, and those terms that depend on the matter fields. The equations for the matter fields then coincide with covariantly-constancy equations in the flat backgrounds Aμ{\cal A}_{\mu} and Aˉμ\bar{{\cal A}}_{\mu}, which are exactly the same as those in linearized 3d Vasiliev gravity. The two- and three-point correlation functions of operators in the boundary CFT are computed by using an on-shell action, tr(BϕρC) \text{tr}\, (B_{\phi\rho} \, C). This term does not depend on coordinates due to the matter equations of motion, and it is not necessary to take the near-boundary limit ρ\rho \rightarrow \infty. Analysis is presented for SL(3,R) ×\times SL(3,R) as well as HS[12]×HS[12]HS[\frac{1}{2}] \times HS[\frac{1}{2}] higher-spin gravity. In the latter model, scalar operators with scaling dimensions Δ+=32\Delta_+=\frac{3}{2} and Δ=12\Delta_-=\frac{1}{2} appear in a single quantization.

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@article{arxiv.1311.4714,
  title  = {AdS/CFT for 3D Higher-Spin Gravity Coupled to Matter Fields},
  author = {Ippei Fujisawa and Kenta Nakagawa and Ryuichi Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4714},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

35 pages, no figures;v2 a footnote and a reference added

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